I think these following pics speak for themselves...........
Our flat: cozy and functional
The last two photos show a the view of the Arabian Sea from our back window and a view of the laundry facilities here at the ashram. Everything is hand washed and air dryed. There are no washing or drying machines here.
The next set of pictures is of the backwaters separating the ashram from the ashram affiliated Amrita university and the bridge that connects the two.
You can see that the University just rises out of the forest on one side as does the ashram with it's several high rise residence buildings on the other side.
The next pics give you an idea of just how expansive nature is that surrounds the ashram--namely the coconut tree forests and the Arabian Sea.. There are also lots of trees in the ashram where lots of exotic birds roost in the evening (comorants, egrets, bald eagles) as well as pigeons and crows.
The next set of pictures is very fun in that it follows the trail off the bridge that we take to get to the University and our office in the Biotechnology Department. It is such a wonderful contrast of very typical Indian village scenes that lead to this incredible state of the art university where scholars and experts from all over the world come here to teach and conduct research. Most of those who teach here are uncompensated and are here because they are devotees of Amma. The architecture of the buildings is very Indian and what is most amazing is that EVERYTHING is pretty much done by manual labor with fairly primitive tools. And if machinery is used, it is really dated and makeshift. Yesterday we saw three young boys making the concrete molds from scratch for the decorative wall surrounding one of the buildings. They are doing this in small batches with painstaking care and precision and HUNDREDS of these decorative molds are needed. It's going to take a long time for this wall project to be done.
Now you have a sense of our day to day walk to work!
Our flat: cozy and functional
The last two photos show a the view of the Arabian Sea from our back window and a view of the laundry facilities here at the ashram. Everything is hand washed and air dryed. There are no washing or drying machines here.
The next set of pictures is of the backwaters separating the ashram from the ashram affiliated Amrita university and the bridge that connects the two.
You can see that the University just rises out of the forest on one side as does the ashram with it's several high rise residence buildings on the other side.
The next pics give you an idea of just how expansive nature is that surrounds the ashram--namely the coconut tree forests and the Arabian Sea.. There are also lots of trees in the ashram where lots of exotic birds roost in the evening (comorants, egrets, bald eagles) as well as pigeons and crows.
The next set of pictures is very fun in that it follows the trail off the bridge that we take to get to the University and our office in the Biotechnology Department. It is such a wonderful contrast of very typical Indian village scenes that lead to this incredible state of the art university where scholars and experts from all over the world come here to teach and conduct research. Most of those who teach here are uncompensated and are here because they are devotees of Amma. The architecture of the buildings is very Indian and what is most amazing is that EVERYTHING is pretty much done by manual labor with fairly primitive tools. And if machinery is used, it is really dated and makeshift. Yesterday we saw three young boys making the concrete molds from scratch for the decorative wall surrounding one of the buildings. They are doing this in small batches with painstaking care and precision and HUNDREDS of these decorative molds are needed. It's going to take a long time for this wall project to be done.
Now you have a sense of our day to day walk to work!
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